Author Archives: tony

Is Buddhism Antisocial? Buddhism cultivates the social conditions favourable for an individual’s realisation of their true reality, which is pure consciousness. To rest in pure consciousness, we have to be a decent, compassionate person.  This means that we don’t cling … Continue reading →

Distracted to Insanity When we are distracted by images, words and ideas,we are not in our right mind. Our right mind is clarity. Unable to think straight,we are obsessed with and addicted to others’ ideas. Ideas, words and images deceive consciousness.If … Continue reading →

Delay And Overreaction Delay and overreaction are the manifestation of aversion and desire. Both create consequences that are allowed to happen, and which govern us.  Just as we are controlled by our personal likes and dislikes, so too we are … Continue reading →

We Live In Expectation Expectation: a strong belief that something will happen. We’re led to believe that supernatural things can happen, so we expect or hope that they will. This clouds our judgment about what’s actually going on. We’re fed supernatural stories and elaborate displays that stick … Continue reading →

What Does It Mean To Be Emptiness? It’s very simple and ordinary – there’s nothing weird about it. Emptiness is the moment of being free of ideas, just aware, empty of identity, mere perception, barely cognisant. It’s that simple. There is … Continue reading →

Sapience Means Wise We are meant to be wise, and not just clever: all creatures have to be clever to survive. Cleverness is knowing about reality.Wisdom is being the reality.

Words Are Projections Words reveal the state of our mind, and they also reveal the state of consciousness. If we cling to words, we become blind to experience. When we are silent, the mind is clear, consciousness is pure, and we are what … Continue reading →

Better The Devil You Know  Better the devil you knowthan the devil you don’t. Really! Demons come in many charming disguises.Be careful what you conjure up! Charm: control or achieve as if by magic. Middle Englis:incantation or magic spell, from Latin  ‘carmen’ – song, verse, incantation.

It Doesn’t Have To Be Like This We don’t have to become a projection of others’ thoughts.We can change!

It Only Seems Real When we encounter pictures, words, conversations … these seem real, but they’re only recording machines. We wake up when we realise that we’ve heard it all before.  Things seem real only because we’ve became used to … Continue reading →

Don’t Believe A Word Words are spells that cast images in the mind, and we believe in these distractions.  The reality of our natural wisdom is beyond words.  When we drop all our words,what’s left?

The Naked Truth The naked truth needs no embellishments. Truth is that which never changes, and that’s consciousness. Consciousness is naked because there is nothing covering it,except our ideas.

Happiness: No Longer Governed By Others’ Thoughts Once we’re free of collective thinking, we start to see how collective thinking came about – by suggestions, which turn into beliefs, and create bewilderment. Happiness is being free of confusion.

A Sobering Thought Beings in infinite space billions of light years away from Earth will have the same pure consciousness as us. All creatures are aware, and therefore conscious, and experience feelings. They may have bigger heads, greater minds or … Continue reading →

The Problem Is ‘You’ If you don’t realise our ultimate reality, you are the problem. You/I/ego is a self-designation built on collective ideas which creates an illusion of an identity that gets in the way of pure perception. We become so … Continue reading →

The Fool And Infinity Fools either ignore infinity or cannot comprehend it.  Infinity cannot be imagined, only realised through infinite consciousness. What is important is here and now,not then.

The Truth Of Existence The essence of a person is pure consciousness but, because of a confused mind, consciousness adopted a form, a projection. We’re doing this right now. The purpose of life is to remember what we are, rather … Continue reading →

Fantasising Versus Realising When we fantasise, we indulge in daydreaming.We fantasise about what’s ‘out there’. When we understand that fantasising is a distraction,we realise that consciousness is the arbiter of reality,and we are no longer daydreaming and fantasising. Philosophy is fantasising; it’s … Continue reading →

It’s All About The Quality Of Consciousness We are consciousness. We are not this mind, full of ideas of gain and fame; that is a fool’s errand, a futile wild-goose chase in an attempt to realise the ultimate truth of … Continue reading →

Heaven In Hell 2 Heaven is clarity – our awakened state.Hell is opinions – our dream state. Clarity: divine splendour.Opinion: thought, belief. Hell is a contaminated mind.Heaven is the pure state of mind.

Looking For Answers? Looking for answers? Look within the mind.The observation of how it works tells us everything. The truth is definitely not about adopting answers.

Being Aware In Experience Being aware in experience is a continual process of non-attachment, therefore there is nothing to let go of. This is our pure state of being.  A confused life is based on opinions about experience, creating a narrative of ‘my … Continue reading →

Distraction And Over-Reaction This is how the world is … trained. We as humans, get over-stimulated and carried away; we lose our minds to fascinations. For most of us, this is the process of life, as we’re constantly distracted and … Continue reading →

Has The Cheese Slid Off Your Cracker? Are we separated from reality? Of course, we’d all say no.But do we truly know what reality is? Asking this very question will start the process to put the cheese back.🙂

All Sentient Beings Are Scientists All sentient beings are scientists;we have to be to survive. As humans, we have more and more information available to us – in fact, too much. When we investigate we look through our mind-microscope to … Continue reading →

Bodhisattva Vow The right intention. There are nine levels of bodhisattvas, up to enlightenment. This vow to work for the benefit of others is not to be taken lightly; taking this vow means one’s life will never be the same … Continue reading →

Unless We Practise Unless we practise, we won’t know what the words mean. But what do we practise?  We practise being aware of both the habitual patterns in our mind which cause conflict, and that which observes this pattern of behaviour. … Continue reading →

We Don’t Have To Agree With Teachers To say that we don’t have to agree with teachers is not to say that they’re wrong, but that their approach may not suit us.  It all depends at what level someone is … Continue reading →